数字化冲击下《法国民法典》的体系调适以合同与责任结构的连续性为中心

    The Systemic Adjustment of the French Civil Code under the Impact of DigitalizationFocusing on the Continuity of the Structures of Contract and Liability

    • 摘要: 数字化进程重塑民事法律关系的生成条件与运行方式,对私法自治、契约自由与过错责任等传统民法原则形成挑战。法国民法典的回应并非断裂性的制度变革,而是在体系连续性中的适应性调整。随着交易方式与责任形态的数字化,合同法通过对合意形成、合同内容确定性及举证责任分配的重新配置,试图在效率与实质公平之间维持规范平衡;侵权责任领域在保持既有责任结构稳定的前提下,通过解释论与证据规则的调适吸纳算法与平台风险。数字化转型引发的主体能力差异,使“电子文盲”等新型弱势群体进入私法规范视野,促使诚信原则与协作义务在权利行使与合同履行阶段获得新的制度内涵。数字身份与信任服务的发展,进一步将证据法与责任规则推至交易安全与人格保护的关键位置。法国民法对数字化的回应未另起规范体系,而是通过对既有制度工具在延续中实现调整,体现大陆法系私法体系在技术变迁中的规范弹性。

       

      Abstract: The digitalization of legal transactions is reshaping the conditions under which civil legal relationships are formed and operate, posing continuous challenges to traditional civil law principles such as private autonomy, freedom of contract, and fault-based liability. In this context, the French Civil Code does not exhibit a disruptive institutional transformation; rather, it demonstrates adaptive adjustments within a framework of systemic continuity. As transactional modalities and liability structures become digitalized, contract law seeks to balance efficiency and substantive fairness by reconfiguring the formation of consent, the certainty of contractual content, and the allocation of evidentiary burdens. In the domain of tort law, existing liability structures are maintained while algorithmic and platform-related risks are absorbed through interpretative techniques and adaptations to evidentiary rules. Meanwhile, digitalization-induced disparities in legal capacity have brought new vulnerable groups, such as the “digitally illiterate,” into the purview of private law, granting new institutional significance to principles of good faith and cooperative obligations in the exercise of rights and contract performance. The development of digital identity and trust services further positions evidentiary and liability rules at the forefront of transactional security and personal rights protection. Overall, the French Civil Code’s response to digitalization does not constitute a new normative framework but achieves adjustment through the redeployment of existing legal instruments, reflecting the normative resilience of the civil law system in the face of technological change.

       

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